Spore will be released tomorrow, September 7th, for the PC and the MAC. What is Spore you ask? It is a Will Wright (the creator of the Sim series) creation that includes multiple gaming genres. The player starts as a single cellular organism. As time progresses, the player's organism becomes more complex through player made decisions, such as making the creature an omnivore, herbivore, or carnivore and other decisions like removing creature's fins or upgrading the creature's vision. The game requires players to plan for the long term in order to advance the creature and its culture with the ultimate goal of conquering space. The implications for educational usage of Spore seems almost unlimited. Will it take off as an educational tool? Only time will tell.
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The Good: Sold lots of copies for a PC game: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10040941-52.html
The Nightmare: DRM - http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/07/amazon-reviewers-clo.html - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/10/spore_drm_amazon_effect/
It seems I'm one of the people that don't get this game, and the DRM does not help entice me to buy the game.
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